The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.


Summa Theologica, (Complete): (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1845) - ISBN: 9781465523815

Thomas Aquinas Quotes

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we...

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we...

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we...

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we...